A history of everyday life in medieval Scotland, 1000 to 1600

A history of everyday life in medieval Scotland, 1000 to 1600 /

This book examines the ordinary, routine, daily behaviour, experiences and beliefs of people in Scotland from the earliest times to 1600. Its purpose is to discover the character of everyday life in Scotland over time and to do so, where possible, within a comparative context. Its focus is on the mu...

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Other Authors: Cowan, Edward J. (Editor), Henderson, Lizanne, 1968- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2011]
Series:History of everyday life in Scotland ; v. 1.
Subjects:
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
HISTORY > World.
Manners and customs
Social conditions
Scotland > History.
Scotland > Social life and customs > History.
Scotland > Social conditions > History.
Scotland > Social conditions.
Écosse > Histoire.
Écosse > Mœurs et coutumes > Histoire.
Écosse > Conditions sociales.
Écosse > Mœurs et coutumes.
Scotland
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Everyday life in medieval Scotland / Edward J. Cowan and Lizanne Henderson
  • 1. Landscape and people / Fiona Watson
  • 3. The worldview of Scottish Vikings in the Age of the Sagas / Edward J. Cowan
  • 3. Sacred and banal: the discovery of everyday medieval material culture / Jenny Shiels and Stuart Campbell
  • 4. The family / David Sellar
  • 5. 'Hamperit in ane hony came': sights, sounds and smells in the medieval town / Elizabeth Ewan
  • 6. Playtime everyday: the material culture of medieval gaming / Mark A. Hall
  • 7. Women of independence in Barbour's 'Bruce' and Blind Harry's 'Wallace' / Rebecca Boorsma
  • 8. Everyday life in the histories of Scotland from Walter Bower to George Buchanan / Nicola Royan
  • 9. Disease, death and the hereafter in medieval Scotland / Richard D. Oram
  • 10. 'Detestable slaves of the devil': changing ideas about witchcraft in sixteenth-century Scotland / Lizanne Henderson
  • 11. Glaswegians: the first one thousand years / Edward J. Cowan
  • 12. Marian devotion in Scotland and the Shrine of Loreto / Audrey-Beth Fitch.

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